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1926 - 1941 Imprinted cloth with clasp closures. 12mo. An unusual archive of one pilot's career from the Golden Age of Flight to the American entrance into the Second World War. Ensign Burdick joined the U.S. Naval Reserve as a Mechanic / Pilot in 1926. The following 15 years of his flying career are documented here in his Flight Log Books. Recounted are his notations of soloing, flying mail, machine deliveries, target towing, photographic, radio and armament training, torpedo recovery, crashes, cross-country flights, aircraft carrier take-off and landings and much more. Notations of machines flown include - N-9, NY-2, OL -6, OL-8, PS-3, PN-12, S-38, S-39, S-43, V-70 and many others. Flights in all areas of the U.S.A. are recorded as well as periods in Spain, Mexico, etc. Burdick also flew for the Sikorsky Corp. and many log pages bear their stamp. Also included with collection is Burdick's I.D. card w/ photo and Mechanic's license as well as a X-mas card from the Officers and Men at…
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by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Flight to Arras - Limited edition
by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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1942 Reynal and Hitchcock first edition. Numbered copy 341 of 500. Signed by Saint-Exupery and illustrator Bernard Lamotte.
Quarter bound in leather over tan boards. Gold topstain with reading ribbon. Decorated endpapers.
The book is an account of the author's experiences as a wartime aviator in France during the early phases of World War Two.
Condition of the book is Good. The binding is straight and sound. Inside pages are complete. The main condition issues are:
1) Moderate wear to the leather spine (see photo)
2) Light soil to the outer edges of the text block
The book shows general age related wear.
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Quarter bound in leather over tan boards. Gold topstain with reading ribbon. Decorated endpapers.
The book is an account of the author's experiences as a wartime aviator in France during the early phases of World War Two.
Condition of the book is Good. The binding is straight and sound. Inside pages are complete. The main condition issues are:
1) Moderate wear to the leather spine (see photo)
2) Light soil to the outer edges of the text block
The book shows general age related wear.
Please message me with any questions.
- Bookseller Harpo Speaks Books (US)
- Illustrator Bernard Lamotte
- Book Condition Used - Good
- Edition first
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Reynal and Hitchcock
- Date Published 1942
Aviation Flight Log Books of W. E. Burdick, U. S. N. R
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San Anselmo, California, United States
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Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon.
by [Astronaut Signature] Shepard, Alan & Deke Slayton.
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- 9781878685544
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- 1878685546
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Langley, Washington, United States
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Atlanta:: Turner Publishing Inc,, 1994.. First Printing of the First Edition.. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. Alan Shepard has signed a bookplate afixed to the half title. Astronauts Shepard and Slayton tell the compelling story of America's race to the Moon, beginning in 1961 when Shepard became the first American to fly in space and ending on July 20, 1969 when Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon. The roots of the first Moon landing are found in the Mercury Program where seven astronauts lead the way to the first Moon landing and those that followed.
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Addresses Delivered in the Year Nineteen Hundred and Forty to the People of Great Britain, of France, and to the Members of the English House of Commons, by the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill
by Winston S. Churchill
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San Diego, California, United States
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San Francisco: Ransohoffs (printed by Grabhorn Press), 1940. 1st Edition. Hardcover. This is a collector-worthy copy of an unusual, scarce, and striking wartime edition of Churchill's speeches. It contains seven of Churchill's speeches from 1940, including "Blood Toil Tears and Sweat" and "The Few". This is the first appearance in volume form of these speeches, later published in "Into Battle". Included are Churchill's speeches to the House of Commons of 13 May (excerpts), 19 May, 18 June, 20 August, 11 September, and 8 October. Also included is Churchill's speech of 21 October to the French nation. This edition was published for Ransohoff's, a San Francisco department store, by Grabhorn Press in a limited edition of 250 copies. It is a large and striking production, measuring 15.75 x 10.75 inches, bound in red cloth covered boards with a quarter linen spine and a leather spine label stamped in gilt. The contents are printed on lavish, handmade paper and printed in red and black. Two similar…
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My Japan: 1930-1951
by Hiroko Nakamoto
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Scotia, New York, United States
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1970 McGraw Hill first edition. Uncommon as a true first.The author was born in 1930, and tells the story of Japan in World War Two from a child's perspective. The book includes an account of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb, which injured the author, and killed her mother.Condition of the book is Very Good. The binding is straight and sound. Inside pages are complete and unmarked. The top edge of the text block shows some light soil.Condition of the dust jacket is Very Good. The DJ is complete, not price clipped. It is protected in a new mylar cover.Please message me with any questions
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This I Remember.
by ELEANOR ROOSEVELT (Signed)
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Great Barrington, Massachusetts, United States
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NZ$2,027.04
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Illustrated. 8vo. Original blue cloth, faded spine label, in publisher's box, label on front. New York 1949. First Edition. Limited to 1000 numbered copies printed on special paper, signed by Eleanor Roosevelt. This is copy # 439. Box faded; top and bottom of box split approximately 1 inch at the four corners of opening; o/w Fine.
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The White Maiden Male.
by [sailorBOYpress] Jeffrey W. Morin.
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Hoover, Alabama, United States
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NZ$1,520.28
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Stevens Point, Wisconsin:: sailorBOYpress,, 2012.. Edition of 50. 11 x 9"; 28 pages. Letterpress printed with Plantin type. Printed on Barcham Green and other handmade papers. Sewn binding with matching paper covers. In 11.75 x 9" lidded aluminum box with embossed titles. Signed and dated by artist. This is the story of Rudolph Brazda, who when he died in 2011 was the last known survivor of the Nazi concentration camps who had been incarcerated because he was a homosexual. Forced wear a pink triangle, Brazda survived 3 years in Buchenwald. After his liberation, Brazda lived in Alsace until his death. Morin overlays Brazda's story with the German folktale of The White Maiden. Jeff Morin, Colophon: "The White Maiden is the tale of a hunter who wishes for the ancient wines of the cellars at Thurnberg in a moment of great thirst. His wish is granted by the White Maiden but, as a result of drinking his wine, she forever plagues him with a sense of wanting, an inability to take…
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Moon Shot: The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon. Introduction by Neil Armstrong.
by Shepard, Alan & Deke Slayton.
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- Used
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- 9781878685544
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- 1878685546
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Langley, Washington, United States
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A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. Inscribed "To Chuck, Alan Shepard" on titlepage. On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, and the space race was born. Desperate to beat the Russians into space, NASA put together a crew of the nation's most daring test pilots: the seven men who were to lead America to the moon. The first into space was Alan Shepard; the last was Deke Slayton, whose irregular heartbeat kept him grounded until 1975. They spent the 1960s at the forefront of NASA's effort to conquer space, and Moon Shot is their inside account of what many call the twentieth century's greatest feat—landing humans on another world. Collaborating with NBC's veteran space reporter Jay Barbree, Shepard and Slayton narrate in gripping detail the story of America's space exploration from the time of Shepard's first flight until he and eleven others had walked on the moon.
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International Aviation Meet. Grant Park Chicago. Panoramic Post Card.
by (Aviation) Max Rigo Selling Company
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Moray, United Kingdom
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Chicago, IL: Max Rigo, 1911. Folding panoramic postcard (290 x 195 mm). Professionally mounted, gazed, and framed using archival materials. Composite photographic image depicting the Chicago lakefront and early planes. The sender's and receiver's details filled out in black ink, and four landmarks noted on the image in the same hand. Marks from stamp, some toning and spotting of the verso, creasing and wear, particularly near the original folds (which are fragile) and at the corners and slightly affecting the image, small tape repair to one corner on the verso. Very good condition. A striking, oversized panoramic postcard photomontage depicting one of the most important aviation events prior to the First World War, the August 1911 International Aviation Meet at Grant Park in Chicago. The Chicago meet was the largest airshow held up to that time, only eight years after the first powered flight by the Wright Brothers. Over the course of nine days thirty-three amateur and professional aviators…
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Hostile Skies: A Combat History of the American Air Service in World War I
by James J. Hudson
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TEMPE, Arizona, United States
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Hostile Skies: SIGNED by JIMMY DOOLITTLE + signed letter & 10 Other Pilots autographs including WW1 Escadrille!+ archive of letters and Photos1st Edition Fine Hardcover in Fine Dust Jacket.
Includes:
Signatures of 11 pilots
Jimmy Doolittle - Metal of Honor Recipient and Eponymous commander of the First Raid on Imperial Japan Following Pearl Harbor
5 WW1 Era Pilots Including:
Charles H. Dolan of the Lafayette Escadrille N-124 -- American Pilots who volunteered to fight for France during WW1 before the U.S. joined the War
-- Named for French Officer Lafayette who fought for the American Colonies during the Revolutionary War.
and 4 Members of the A.E. F.
5 other Pilots from Vietnam to the Modern Era -- Not all Confirmed Identified
Also a Letter from Jimmy Doolittle Signed simply "Jim" on Letterhead with Envelope and Business Card (and copy of letter it was in response to)
A Letter from the Author
3 Original Period Photographs of WW1 pilots -- Unidentified, possibly corresponding to the autographs?… Read More
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My Japan: 1930-1951
by Hiroko Nakamoto
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Scotia, New York, United States
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1970 McGraw Hill first edition. Uncommon as a true first.The author was born in 1930, and tells the story of Japan in World War Two from a child's perspective. The book includes an account of the Hiroshima nuclear bomb, which injured the author, and killed her mother.Condition of the book is Very Good. The binding is straight and sound. Inside pages are complete and unmarked. The top edge of the text block shows some light soil.Condition of the dust jacket is Very Good. The DJ is complete, not price clipped. It is protected in a new mylar cover.Please message me with any questions
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Santa Barbara Photographs
by Bill Zeldis; Editor-Zeldis; Illustrator-Zeldis
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- very good
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- Hardcover
- ISBN 13
- 9780971908079
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- 0971908079
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Littlerock, California, United States
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NZ$84.46NZ$42.23Save NZ$25.00!
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Santa Barbera: Zeldis Publishing, 7-04. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Large format hardback with dust jacket which is has minor wear, Signed by Photgrapher Bill Zeldis
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Hasen
by Bercovitch, Reuben
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Sebastopol, California, United States
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New York: Knopf, 1978. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Jacket woodcut from Rockwell Kent Legacies, cover design by Lidia Ferrera.. This First Edition title translates to "Hare", a story of two young boys surviving in the wild near a concentration camp, and the day everything changes. "As simply and beguilingly told as a fairy tale, this is a novel whose terror belongs to reality-a novel that evokes with extraordinary power the essence, the beauty, of loyalty and commitment tested to the utmost." (from DJ). 5½ x 8". Original black boards over cloth, silver letters to spine, black top edge. Bottom spine slightly bumped, DJ has tiny chips at top & bottom spine and light wear to back, else a near fine dustjacket over a near fine book with Kent's striking woodcut on cover.
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THE ASIATICS
by Prokosch, Frederic
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Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
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New York: Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., 1945. 348 pages, Armed Service edition #764, published in July 1945. During World War II more than seventy American publishers cooperated with the Council on Books in Wartime to distribute books free of charge to American servicemen. The flat oblong paperback books were designed to be easily carried into battle in soldiers' pockets. From September 1943 through June 1947, there were 1,322 titles published in Armed Services Editions. The book offered here is in very good condition: clean and tight, with minor edgewear.. First Edition Thus. Paperback. Very Good. Oblong 32mo - over 4" - 5" Tall. Book.
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Yank, The Army Weekly; World War II from the guys who brought you victory
by Steve Kluger
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- Used - good
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- good, faded spine (red spine)
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- 9781854091017
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- 1854091018
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Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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NZ$21.30
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Arms and Armour, 1991. Hardback. good/good, faded spine (red spine). with Dw, slightly faded on the spine, slightly foxed and tanned on the page edges otherwise very good
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Orlando King
by Colegate, Isabel
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- Very Good
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- First Edition, First Printing
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- 9780370006529
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- 0370006526
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Lukeville , Arizona, United States
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London, The Bodley Head, 1968, hardcover, 204 pp, True First Edition, First Printing, Very Good in Very Good dustjacket. Tightly bound and clean with no markings, spine a bit cocked, front endpaper corner-clipped, small spots to front board. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, edge nicks, rubs, light scratches, short edge tears carefully repaired on the interior side with archival quality tape, very faint stains to rear panel, in new Brodart sleeve. The popular author's first book in the Orlando Trilogy followed by Orlando at the Brazen Threshold, and Agatha. A modern classic. ISBN 9780370006529
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European Sporting Cartridges Volume 2
by W. B. Dixon
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- ISBN 13
- 9789110456990
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- 9110456996
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Woods Cross, Utah, United States
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EUROPEAN SPORTING CARTRIDGES, VOLUME TWO: THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF CONTINENTAL EUROPEAN SPORTING CENTERFIRE AMMUNITION FROM 1870 TO 1998Author: Dixon, W.B.Published by Armory Publications, Inc., 2000Seattle, Washington USA 98155
Printed in the United States of America by
Publishers Press / Salt Lake City, Utah 84119
First EditionOUT OF PRINT and SCARCE. Both the Book and the Dust Jacket are in AS NEW condition still sealed in the Original Publishers Shrink Wrap. An opportunity to own a beautiful copy of a RARE TITLE.226 pages. 9.25" x 12.25". Hardcover with a Dust Jacket. Volume Two covers all of the European Sporting Cartridges ( other than German and Austrian which are covered in Volume One ), including those from Switzerland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Russia, Czechoslovakia, France, and Belgium. There are also a number of patent drawings and descriptions of ammunition and magazine designs as well as photographs of a number of German-made double rifles and combination guns.
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50 Years Later: Remains of the Battle of the Bulge
by Emonts-Pohl, Joseph; Schuren, Hermann-Josef
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- 9789054330417
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Grenz-Echo Verlag. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Jacket lightly scuffed.. 1994. Hardcover. 9054330414 . A photoessay on the tank memorials and other military remains of the Battle of the Bulge along the Luxembourg-Belgium border. Many color photos. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 160 pages .
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Die Befreiung 1813 - 1814 - 1815 : Urkunden - Berichte - Briefe mit geschichtlichen Verbindungen
by Klein, Tim
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Thessaloniki, Greece
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A 1st ed. good paperback, soiling & other signs of wear on covs. & spine as in image, with stamp fr. end p. & inside of cov. (image_2) "Alfred Rosenberg spende fur die Deutsche Wehrmacht 1939/1941 Gau Danzig" also FON pasted label. 520p. 19x13cm. 500gr. "Die Stempel mit dem Schriftzug: "Alfred-Rosenberg-Spende für die Deutsche Wehrmacht …". Eine kurze Untersuchung nach anderen Belegen und Formen über diesen Stempel ergab, dass solche Stempel auch mit anderen Gaubezeichnungen bekannt sind. Es handelte sich bei diesen Aktionen um deutschlandweite Buchsammlungen, die das Ziel verfolgten, den Soldaten an der Front Bücher zukommen zu lassen.Durchgeführt wurde die Aktion "Buchspende für die Deutsche Wehrmacht" vom Kriegs-Winterhilfswerk, dem ein Aufruf Rosenbergs voranging. Bis zum Jahr 1940 konnten so 8 ½ Millionen Bücher gesammelt werden. Bis zum Frühjahr 1941 konnten in zwei Sammelaktionen 15 ½ Millionen Bücher an die kämpfende Front verschickt werden . Im Oktober 1941 erfolgte… Read More
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The Damned Engineers: How one battalion of Combat Engineers stalled Hitler's offensive in the Battle of the Bulge
by Giles, Janice Holt
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- Used - Very Good+
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- Good+
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- First Edition, First Printing stated
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- ISBN 13
- 9780395077443
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- 0395077443
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Lukeville , Arizona, United States
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Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1970, hardcover, xxi-409 pp, First Edition, First Printing stated, Very Good+ in Good+ dustjacket. Straight, tight and clean with no markings, slight spine-end touches, previous owner's embossing to title page. Dustjacket unclipped bearing original price, small spine-end and corner nicks, wear to folds, short closed edge tears, some discreet tape repairs, in new Brodart sleeve. The definitive account of the participation of the 291st Engineer Combat Battalion at the Battle of the Bulge compiled by the famous Kentucky author from accounts given by her husband, fellow author Henry Giles, and other members of the Battalion who took part. Illustrated with 22 pages of black-&-white plates and 11 maps. Mapped endpapers show the Kampfgruppe Peiper advance route. ISBN 9780395077443
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Schlieffens Vermaechtnis
by D. Von Zoellner
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Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
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NZ$101.35
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Berlin: E. S. Mittler & Sohn, 1938. Orginal Wraps. Octavo. First Thus. Zum 25. Todestage des Generalfeldmarschalls Graf von Schlieffen. Sonderheft der "Militaerwissenschaftlichen Rundschau". 56 pp. Two portraits. The central problem not accurately dealt with in World War I would definitely have to be considered for any invasion friends to the West. Here is the issue published in the Third Reich without explicitly stating the obvious implications for the near future.
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